Everything you need to know to plan, organize, and prepare a winning recompete proposal. Led by Russell Smith, OCI President. Based on 35 years experience leading an industry-recognized proposal consultant agency. Providing full-service support to large and small business. Helping customers prepare 600 recompete proposals. https://vimeo.com/411459991 Webinar first given by invitation [...]
Ken Blair While you are off-site, study up on how to win a place at the table on the DIA SITE III contract. DIA SITE III Background: After a run of nearly five years, E-SITE will be sun downed in December of 2020, and DIA has released the draft RFP for the [...]
During 40 years in the industry, I have found that a Tree-type graphic helps proposal authors visualize the connection between strategy, win themes, and evaluation factors. In this article, I present an example of such a Tree. Take a look at the graphic with this article. Note how we constructed it.
Here is a set of principles that can help guide the design of a successful proposal process. They provide a set of standards against which you can assess your proposal. After all, if you don't know your goals, it's difficult to achieve them.
By Scott Maucione | @smaucioneWFED August 29, 2019 2:28 pm 4 min read MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – The Air Force is touting a new digital plan that it thinks will unfetter it from an industrialized way of thinking, open itself to faster networks, better weapons systems and make the service a more attractive employer. That seems [...]
Gary Everett Note: The author has 30 years experience as a Program Manager, COO, and Proposal Manager. Make sure you know your customer wants you back. Sometimes bad results are hidden from management, and this could kill any bid you put in. Your federal proposal content should: Take advantage of your knowledge [...]
Jared Serbu -- The Army is taking new steps to speed up its adoption of cloud computing, even as the fate of the Defense Department’s JEDI Cloud contract remains uncertain. New Army Cloud Program Office Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford said the Army remains fully supportive of the JEDI [...]
Ben Bartine -- Note: Here is the argument when you find yourself working a proposal including serverless computing. Serverless computing is both a misnomer and a new paradigm that proposal personnel need to understand. It can save development time and leverage your development and admin resources. Serverless computing is a fancy way of [...]
Jared Serbu, deputy editor of Federal News Network -- When it comes to its enterprise network, the Army has reached the same conclusion the Navy did almost two decades ago: Keeping pace with technology is likely to be a losing battle unless it offloads some proportion of the work to private industry. [...]
At a February 22, AFCEA luncheon, Army panelists discussed their battle to get into the cloud and use online IT services. Based on their comments, it is clear that the battle is in its early stages. The panel included: • Colonel (P) Jeth Rey, Army Cyber Command’s Director of Operations • Colonel [...]
